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The Politics of New Media Practices
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The Politics of New Media Practices

A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760). This special issue belongs to the section "Contemporary Politics and Society".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 August 2022) | Viewed by 12510

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Vasiliki Tsagkroni

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Guest Editor
Comparative Politics, Institute of Political Science, Leiden University, 2311 EZ Leiden, The Netherlands
Interests: comparative politics; discourse analysis; political communication; political radicalism; political science; populism; radicalisation
Dr. Michael Nevradakis

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Guest Editor
Faculty of Communication, Hellenic American University, Nashua, NH 03063, USA
Interests: communication and journalism; Social media and the public sphere; media policy and regulation; political communication; alternative media

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

We are currently seeking contributions for a forthcoming Special Issue entitled “The Politics of New Media Practices”, which will be published in the Journal of Social Sciences. In an expanding media verse that is increasingly intertwined with the world of politics, we are seeking to explore the ramifications and broader impacts of new media practices in the political realm, while the existence and operation of a broad range of social media outlets has, itself, become highly politicized in recent years.

We welcome theoretical, empirical, or professional contributions of the highest standard on any of the following topics: Polarization; Hate speech; Fake news; Populism; Sensationalism and clickbait; Activism and new media practices; Moderation policies and free speech issues; Algorithms policy making approaches (such as net neutrality and regulation of social media).

Ph.D. candidates with original empirical research are also strongly encouraged to submit an abstract. 

Dr. Vasiliki Tsagkroni
Dr. Michael Nevradakis
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • polarization
  • hate speech
  • fake news
  • populism
  • sensationalism and clickbait
  • activism and new media practices
  • moderation policies and free speech issues
  • algorithms policy making approaches

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Agenda-Setting Dynamics during COVID-19: Who Leads and Who Follows?
by Lāsma Šķestere and Roberts Darģis
Soc. Sci. 2022, 11(12), 556; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11120556 - 28 Nov 2022
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The outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) has altered the way news media and social media set their agendas. The growth of social media raises questions about its potential power to set the media agenda. We gathered social media posts and online news site [...] Read more.
The outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19) has altered the way news media and social media set their agendas. The growth of social media raises questions about its potential power to set the media agenda. We gathered social media posts and online news site articles to examine agenda-setting dynamics, aiming to explore causal relationship between news media and social media. We used a computer-assisted text analysis to discover the main topics of discussion at the first wave of the pandemic in Latvia. The results revealed that (1) statistics about the pandemic, as well as prevention and control measures were the main topics on social media and in online news sites, and that (2) vector autoregression models provide more empirical support for the influence of online news sites on social media than reverse. Full article
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New Media, New Practices? A Study of the First Spanish Podcast Community and Its Pioneers
by David García-Marín
Soc. Sci. 2022, 11(7), 308; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11070308 - 14 Jul 2022
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About to celebrate its first two decades of life, podcasting is one of the fastest-growing mediums in recent years. This medium, promoted from the amateur sphere as a result of the arrival of Web 2.0, has become an increasingly professional practice thanks to [...] Read more.
About to celebrate its first two decades of life, podcasting is one of the fastest-growing mediums in recent years. This medium, promoted from the amateur sphere as a result of the arrival of Web 2.0, has become an increasingly professional practice thanks to the work of major production companies and platforms such as Spotify. In this context of increasing professionalization, this paper aims to investigate the origins of podcasting in Spain in order to analyze the decisive role that the first community of Spanish amateur podcasters played in its development. An ethnographic research study, focused on the first seven years of the medium in this country (2004–2010), was carried out. The study was based on interviews with the pioneers, a review of source documents, and participant observation. The difficulties and the main milestones related to the medium’s origin are analyzed. Likewise, the parallels between the beginning of this practice and the role assumed by radio amateurs at the beginning of radio in Spain a century ago are discussed. This parallel trajectory linking the origin of both media (radio and podcast) can be useful to envision a perspective on the possible developments of podcasting in the coming years. Full article
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